A strong desire to break free from the oppressing clutches of poverty keeps pushing me, even when, at times, I feel like quitting.To be sitting here in one piece must surely count as an accomplishment in itself. Quite often, I wake up in the morning and feel an overwhelming sense of disappointment with the way things have turned out in my life. I awake to the grim reality that I am about to go thr

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights(ZLHR) has become prophets of doom on the constitution making process by speculating that the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC )constitution would be a transitional document that shall be replaced by a permanent one in a stable post-inclusive government.As opinion makers in society , the ZLHR's comments and observations on constitutio

Remarks by Dr Henry Madzorera, the Minister of Health and Child Welfare at a Press Confrence on the Typhoid Outbreak in the City of Harare.BackgroundTyphoid is systemic bacterial disease that is characterised by insidious onset of sustained fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, a relative bradycardia, splenomegaly rose spots on the trunk, a non productive cough in the early stages of the illness and

Zimbabweans should feel a great sense of relief that South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former wife of President Jacob Zuma failed to make it to the African Union's top post yesterday in Addis Ababa.Relief because Robert Mugabe's sidekick failed to get the AU leadership vote amid pressure from serial political flip-flopper Jonathan Moyo for polls regardless of the need for a level playing fie

A landmark development in July 2011 led to the creation of a new state in Africa as South Sudan became an independent state under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. Sudan's war was fought for most years from 1955 to 2005 over issues of ethnicity, religion, ideology and oil and an estimated 2.0m people died in the conflict. After Southerners voted overwhelmingly to secede in a refer

NDUMISO Ngcobo, a columnist for South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper, has got me thinking. Ngcobo has some pretty strong views about membership of any entity, particularly that of a political party.I will not repeat what he wrote in its entirety, lest a certain political party sent its hit squad of weirdoes masquerading as liberation heroes to come beat me up with their walking sticks.Ngcobo, in

Can the African Union help us?Personally, I have little hope in the African Union when it comes to the Zimbabwe questions. They have failed to stop people getting massacred in the DRC, Rwanda, Somalia and other parts of the continent. As for Zimbabweans, I think our case is just not yet ripe to be taken seriously. African Heads of State are meeting in Ethiopia this week while for Zimbabwe news

Dear Ambassador Charles Ray I read with interest your speech on the state of Zimbabwe-US relations and have decided to share my opinion on the matter, if only in brief. You have achieved many wonderful things during your term in Harare as American Ambassador, including helping in the battle against HIV and Aids and bolstering agricultural production. That's very commendable work indeed and I can o

"I AM told we are now even importing women's underwear. How does that happen? If you are a husband and you see your wife buying underwear from the flea market, you would have failed." These are said to have been the words of Finance Minister Tendai Biti on 30 December last year when the importation of second hand underwear was outlawed.The ban was a welcome development although it would be interes

"A man calls himself God" reads one of the local tabloid headlines. About time, I thought, I could see it coming, somebody had to have the guts and go that extra mile.To me this man is just an individual manifestation of what we have become as a society, he resembles the pinnacle of our religious lunacy. Assuming he is clinically mentally stable, even if he is not of sound mind, this should sound

All social indicators predict a short, miserable life for those unlucky enough to be born Black males in America. Welcome to America where too many young Black men live short, desperate, miserable, complicated and violent lives. Recently a young Black man reported to the California General Assembly that the biggest challenge in his life was getting to school safely–not getting good g

So I got this in my email this morning…They call the Third World the lazy man's purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished. In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and inno

Orlando Pirates is one of South Africa's oldest football clubs. The club was formed in 1937 in Orlando East, Soweto.The club's performances over the years have served as an inspiration to young soccer players to strive to play the beautiful game at the highest level in the black and white colours of the "Buccaneers".The founders of Orlando Pirates included offspring of migrant workers who moved fr

Restoring the Zimdollar at this stage is like swerving a combat body forward, baring the chest, stomach, groin and all.I am very clear about what works and what does not work, clear about what edifies and what damages. There is nothing to be gained by seeking to interfere with the circulation of Morgan Tsvangirai's useless book. I reviewed it a few weeks back. It is a false testimony by a small m